Hans Conrad Stadler

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Lithograph by HC Stadler

Hans Conrad Stadler , (* 13. February 1788 in Zurich ; † 13. January 1846 in Zurich) was a Swiss architect of classicism . Ferdinand Stadler was a nephew .

life and work

Stadler was born as the second oldest son of the cantonal master woodworker Hans Conrad Stadler (1752-1819). While his older brother Hans Kaspar was to become a carpenter and take over his father's business, Hans Conrad had to complete an apprenticeship as a bricklayer against his will. After completing his apprenticeship, he studied at Friedrich Weinbrenner's construction school in Karlsruhe (since there were neither construction schools nor polytechnics in Switzerland, studies abroad were common) and gained professional experience with Vaucher in Geneva in 1807 and with Fontaine in Paris from 1808–1811 . After his return he received the order for two buildings in the canton, a plan for Wädenswil Castle, which burned down in 1804, and the planning of a replacement building for the dilapidated church in Albisrieden. Both strictly classicist buildings were completed in 1819. As a master builder, Stadler worked closely with his industrialist friend and architect, Hans Caspar Escher - according to Escher's plans, Stadler built the main guardhouse on the Rathausbrücke in Zurich in 1824 . At the same time he built one of the key buildings of the early baths, the horseshoe-shaped Kurhaus in Bad Schinznach.

Stadler's main factory is the Posthof on the then new Poststrasse (now Bahnhofstrasse ) in Zurich. Today only a part of this remains true to the original, such as the facade with the pillars in front of the Optiker Zwicker shop. Ferdinand Stadler worked as a carpenter on the building.

His nephew was the landscape painter Johann Jakob Stadler .

Buildings

Zürcher Posthof on the corner of Poststrasse and Frauenmünsterstrasse
  • Old Reformed Church , Albisrieden , 1816–18
  • Catholic Church , Galgenen , 1822–26
  • Karrer House , St. Gallen , 1823–26
  • Kurhaus , Schinznach, 1824–27
  • Sihlgarten house , Talacker 39, Zurich, built 1826–1829 for the silk industrialist Daniel Bodmer-Escher (cost 100,000 guilders), demolished in 1947
  • Haus zum Kronentor , Seilergraben 1, Zurich, 1828–33 for the industrialist Martin Escher , preserved slightly altered
  • Zunfthaus zum Roten Adler , Kirchgasse 42, Zurich, 1830–31, (already existed before, renovation?)
  • Villa Schönbühl , Kreuzbühlstrasse 36 (1838)
  • Posthof , post office building on Poststrasse, Zurich, 1836–42
  • Catholic schoolhouse , St. Gallen 1839–41 (with Felix Wilhelm Kubly)
  • Home of the Fischer family in Baden
  • House of the Orelli family in Talacker, Zurich
  • House in Kratz , Zurich

Plans and historical views (gallery)

  • View of the Posthof on Paradeplatz in the 19th century

  • Plan of the post office

  • House Sihlgarten (built 1826 to 1829, demolished in 1947)

literature

  • Jan Capol: Stadler, Hans Conrad . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 503
  • Artist Society Zurich [Ed.]: New Year's Gazette 1847 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Paul Bissegger: The Zurich-Albisrieden church from 1818. A work by Hans Conrad Stadler baudenkmaeler.ch, Otelfingen 2012 Online
  2. ↑ Edgard Haider: Lost Splendor. Stories of destroyed buildings . Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2006, p. 44f.
personal data
SURNAME Stadler, Hans Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stadler, Hans Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1846
Place of death Zurich